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Evans, Linda
(1958-2023) US author whose first novel Sleipnir (1994) is a fantasy in which a modern GI intervenes in the world of Norse Gods and Mythology as Ragnarok looms. With Robert Asprin, Evans co-wrote the Time Scout sequence of Time Travel adventures beginning with Time Scout (1995), in which accidentally formed ...
Fox, Henry
(?1911-?1980) London-based UK artist and illustrator, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Art since 1940, who is perhaps unfortunately best known in sf for producing more than 200 covers 1960-1967 for John Spencer and Co's Badger Books, in a trashy style all too well suited to that imprint's demand for rapid delivery rather than quality. Approximately 112 of these cover paintings were for the Badger SF (science fiction) and SN (supernatural) series. Fox had ...
Steampunk Explorer, The
US Online Magazine published since March 2018, edited from the San Francisco area by Stephen Beale, a semi-retired professional journalist. / Produced in the style of an online magazine or newspaper (see Newszines), The Steampunk Explorer covers news about Steampunk Fandom, media, and related topics with an emphasis on activities in English-speaking countries ...
Rutherford, Mike
(1950- ) UK musician, best known as guitarist of the group Genesis. His first solo album, Smallcreep's Day (1980) is a concept album based on Peter Currell Brown's 1965 sf novel of the same title: the protagonist, a bored factory worker, leaves his post to explore the factory – a site so large it contains other worlds – and returns a changed man. A number of albums followed, ...
Winchester, Mark
(? -? ) UK author, possibly pseudonymous, of boys' stories, those of most sf interest being Lord of the Lonely Isle (1940), a Lost Race tale set on a mysterious Island in the South Pacific, whose previously undiscovered inhabitants include the descendants of pirates, and a race of giant apes; and The Secret Treasure (1947), which locates its mild-mannered ...
Clute, John
(1940- ) Canadian critic, editor and author, in the UK from 1969; married to Judith Clute from 1964, partner of Elizabeth Hand since 1996. He began to publish work of genre interest with an sf-tinged poem "Carcajou Lament" in Triquarterly for Winter 1960 [ie Autumn 1959]; he began consistently publishing sf reviews in his "New Fiction" column for the Toronto Star (1966-1967), and later in ...